Subduction of the North Pacific mode waters in a global high-resolution GCM

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 746-763

  Qu, Tangdong ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Mitsudera, Humio ^a   Ishida, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; WATER;

SEASONAL CYCLES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MESOSCALE EDDY; MODE WATER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCLINE;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036505885     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0746:SOTNPM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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